Month: November 2010
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Black Box Performance Space Video Promo
Second year media student Michelle Graves produced this short video promoting the new Black Box Performance Space. The space is the latest addition to the InterArts Department and has already gotten plenty of use. Three classes took place there this semester; Interactive Media, Media Performance and Performance in Artificial Space…
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Student Spotlight: Alexa J. Rittichier
Alexa J. Rittichier is a first-year Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA student. Still from Cinders Rising (2009), a collaborative video piece by Alexa J. Rittichier (dancer/performer), Deborah Gregory (video artist), and Leora Gardner (experimental violinist). What are you currently working on? My current work is delving into issues related to Alzheimer’s and mortality. As I…
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SPACE & PLACE INDIVIDUAL MFA INSTALLATIONS, PART ONE
WHEN: Live Durational Performance: Tues., Nov. 16, from 6 -10 pm Interactive Installation: Wed., Nov. 17 – Thurs., Nov. 18 from 3 – 7 pm WHERE:Columbia College Chicago, 916 S. Wabash, 2nd Floor One More, by Michael St. John, Room 204 Drawing Gestures, by Jenny Garnett, Room 205 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC The…
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Interactive Arts and Interdisciplinary Arts & Media Present: Trever Paglen
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 – 8th Floor / Film Row Cinema – 1104 S. Wabash Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us…
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Post Human//Future Tense Show Opens
The Interarts student curated Post Human//Future Tense show opened with a well attended reception on Thursday, November 4. The show features multi-disciplinary and new media works created by national and international graduate students. Curated by Victoria Eleanor Bradford, Michelle Graves, Nicolas Ruley and Nicholas Sagan, graduate students in the Interdisciplinary Arts Department of Columbia College…
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Interdisciplinary Arts Alums Create Video for World Bicycle Relief Organization
Interdisciplinary Arts Alum Kevin Valentine, Matt Pierce, and Ramah Jihan collaborated on a developing video project for World Bicycle Relief, an organization dedicated to providing access to independence and livelihood through the power of bicycles by partnering with existing NGO, government and community based organizations…
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“And He Flew Over the Forest” Opens 11/19 at Prop Thtr
And He Flew Over the Forest – an original play with music developed by Brain Surgeon Theater (Gwen Tulin, MFA Interarts & Media ’13, Artistic Director). During what could be her family’s last trip together, a young girl returns to a world of her own creation. While her family crumbles around her, Leah seeks solace…
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Video Installation by Jeanine Mellinger at the Media Production Center
Installation view of Reframing Nature Series – Photo: Michelle Graves Interdisciplinary Arts & Media Program Director Jeanine Mellinger and artist John Manning produced the inaugural video installation for the lobby of Columbia College-Chicago’s new Media Production Center for the opening gala…
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Student Spotlight: Nic Ruley
Meet Nic Ruley, a third year Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA candidate who will be presenting his thesis in May. Where did you do your undergrad and what did you study there? I did my undergrad at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio from 1998 to 2002, studying non-traditional theater and autoperformance, with a major…
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Core Project Performances at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Core Project Chicago will feature the work of esteemed modern dance choreographer Alwin Nikolais in their forth-annual BonesBare production to be held at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts November 12 and 13 at 8pm. Ms. Rehberg is currently on the faculty of the Dance Department of Middle Tennessee State University, which was selected…